We are happy to announce the release of netty 4.1.81.Final.

This release is fixes a number of regressions and bugs that were introduced in the previous release.

The most important changes are:

• Fix a regression SslContext private key loading (#12743)
• Fix a bug in SslContext private key reading fall-back path (#12746)
• Fix a buffer leak regression in HttpClientCodec (#12762)
• Fix a bug where some HttpMessage implementations, that also implement HttpContent, were not handled correctly (#12751)
• The MessageFormatter and FormattingTuple classes are now usable in the public API (#12763)
• Connection related headers in HTTP/2 frames are now rejected, in compliance with the specification (#12755)

Thank You

Every idea and bug-report counts and so we thought it is worth mentioning those who helped in this area.

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• @chrisvest
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• @franz1981
• @geoand
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